Unit 7 The Shelter課文翻譯大學(xué)英語三.doc

Unit 7 The ShelterRod SerlingSeveral neighbors hope to find safety in the only bomb shelter on their street when an announcement comes over the radio that enemy missiles are approaching. Can it shelter all of them? Does its owner let them in?Here is the storySYNOPSIS OF ACT ONE: On a summer evening, a birthday celebration is going on at Dr. Stocktons. Among those present are his neighbors: the Hendersons, the weisss and the Harlowes. In the midst of it comes unexpectedly over the radio the announcement of the President of the United States declaring a state of emergency of for suspected enemy missiles approaching. The party breaks up and the neighbors hurry home.However, shortly afterwards they return one after another to the stockton house for the simple reason that they want to survive want to share with the Stocktons the bomb shelter which is the only one on their street.ACT TWO(abridged)OUTSIDE STOCKTON HOMEHENDERSON: Itll land any minute. I just know it. Its going to land any minuteMRS. HENDERSON: (grabs hold of him) What are we going to do?Throughout above and following dialogue, a portable radio carried by one of the children carries the following announcement:ANNOUNCERS VOICE: This is Conelrad. This is Conelrad. We are still in a state of Yellow Alert. If you are a public official or government employee with an emergency assignment, or a civil defense worker, you should report to your post immediately. If you are a public official or government employeeMRS. HARLOWE: Jerry, ask again.HARLOWE: Dont waste you time. He wont let anyone in. He said he didnt have any room or supplies there and its designed for three people.MRS.HENDERSON: Whatll we do?HARLOWE: Maybe we ought to pick out just one basement and go to work on it. Poll all our stuff. Food, water, everything.MRS.HARLOWE: It isnt fair. (she points toward Stockton house) Hes down there in a bomb shelter completely safe. And our kids have to just wait around for a bomb to drop and HENDERSON: Lets just go down into his basement and break down the door?A chorus of voices greet this with assent.As HENDERSON rushes through toward the basement entrance, HARLOWE overtakes him saying:HARLOWE: Wait a minute, wait a minute. All of us couldnt fit in there. That would be crazy to even try.WEISS: Why dont we draw lots? Pick out one family?HARLOWE: What difference would it make? He wont let us in.HENDERSON: We can all march down there and tell him hes got the whole street against him. We could do that.HARLOWE: What good would that do? I keep telling you. Even if we were to break down the door, it couldnt accommodate all of us. Wed just be killing everybody and for no reason.MRS. HENDERSON: If it saves even one of these kids out hereI call that a reason.The voice comes up again.WEISS: Jerry, you know him better than nay of us. Youre his best friend. Why dont you go down again? Try to talk to him. Pleased with him. Tell him to pick out one family Draw lots or something HENDERSON: One family, meaning yours, Weiss, huh?WEISS: (whirls around to him) Why not? Ive got a three-month-old infantMRS. HENDERSON: What difference does that make? Is your babys life any more precious than our kids?WEISS: (shouting at her) I never said that. If youre going to start trying to argue about who deserves to live more than the next one HENDERSON: Why dont you shut your mouth, Weiss? (with a wild, illogical anger) Thats the way it is when the foreigners come over here. Aggressive, greedy, semi-AmericansWEISS: (his face goes white) Why you garbage-brained idiot youMRS. HENDERSON: It still goes, Weiss! I bet youre at the bottom of the listWEISS suddenly flings himself through the crowd toward the man and theres a brief, hand-to-hand fight between them broken up by HARLOWE who stands between them breathless.HARLOWE: Keep it up, both of you. Just keep it up. We wont need a bomb. We can slaughter each other. MRS.WEISS: (pleading) Marty, go down to Bills shelter again. Ask him WEISS: Ive already asked him. It wouldnt do any good.One again the siren sounds and the people seem to move closer together, staring up toward the night sky. Off in the distance we see searchlights.HARLOWE: Searchlights. It must be coming closer.HENDERSON: (as he suddenly pushes HARLOWE aside and heads for the steps) Im going down there and get him to open up that door. I dont care what the rest of you think. Thats the only thing left to do.MAN # 1: Hes right. Come on, lets do it.INSIDE THE SHELTERGRACE is holding tight to PAUL. STOCKTON stands close to the door listening to the noises from outside as they approach. Theres a pounding on the shelter door that reverberates.OUTSIDE THE SHELTERHENDERSON: Bill? Bill Stockton? Youve got a bunch of your neighbors out here who want to stay alive. Now you can open the door and talk to us and figure out with us how many can come in there. Or else you can just keep doing what youre doing and well fight our way in there.HARLOWE appears and pushes his way through the group and goes over to the shelter door.HARLOWE: Bill. This is Jerry. They mean business out here.STOCKTONS VOICE: And I mean business in here. Ive already told you, Jerry. Youre wasting you time. Youre wasting precious time that could be use for something elselike figuring out how you can survive.NAM # 1: Why dont we get a big, heavy log to break the door down?HENDERSON: We could go over to Bennett Avenue. Phil Kline has some giant logs in his basement. Ive seen them. Lets get one. And well just tell Kline to keep his mouth shut as to why we want it.WEISS: Lets get hold of ourselves. Lets stop and think for a minuteHENDERSON: (turning to face WEISS) Nobody cares what you think. You or your kind. I thought I made that clear upstairs. I think the first order of business is to get you out of here.With this he strikes out, smashing his fist into WEISSs face in a blow so unexpected and so wild that WEISS, totally unprepared, is knocked against the wall. His wife screams and, still holding the baby, rushes to him. Theres a commotion as several men try to grab the neighbor and HARLOWE is immediately at WEISSs side trying to help him to his feet. Once again the sirens blast.HENDERSON: (should over the noise and commotion) Come on, lets get something to smash this door down.They start out of cellar toward the steps.INSIDE THE SHELTERSTOCKTON slowly turns to face his wife. The angry screaming cries of the people ring in their ears even as they depart.GRACE (looks up) Bill? Who were those people?STOCKTON (turning to stare toward the door) Those people? Those are our neighbors, Grace. Our friends. The people weve lived with and alongside for twenty years. (then in a different fixed expression and in a different tone) Come on. Paul. Lets put stuff up against this door. Everything we can.The man and boy then start to pile up a barricade, using furniture, the generator, books, any movable object they can get their hands on.OUTSIDE OF THE SHELTERThe mob marches down the street carrying a large heavy log that is perhaps fifteen feet long. Their own shouts mix with the sound of the intermittent siren and with the voice of the announcer on the Conelrad station.ANNOUNCERS VOICE: Weve been asked to once again remind the population that they are to remain calm, stay off the streets. This is urgent. Please remain off the streets. Everything possible is being done in the way of protection. But the military and important civil defense vehicles must have the streets clear. So youre once again reminded to remain off the streets. Remain off the streets!The minute the mob gathers before the STOCKTON house, they smash into it, carrying the giant log. They move down the cellar steps. As the log smashes into the shelter door, the siren goes up louder and more piercing and it is at this moment that we see both WEISS and HARLOW join the men on the heavy log to lend their support to it.INSIDE THE SHELTERSTOCKTON and Paul lean against it as it starts to give under the weight, under the pressure. The air is filled with angry shouts, the intermittent siren, the cries of women and children.INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF THE SHELTER And it all reaches one vast pitch just as the door is forced open. PAUL and STOCKTON are pushed back into the shelter and just at this moment the light go on in the basement. The siren also reaches its top and then suddenly goes off and there is absolute dead silence for a long moment. Then from the portable radio in the corner comes ANNOUNCERS VOICE: This is Conelrad. This is Conelrad. Remain turned for an important message. Remain tuned for an important message. (a pause) The President of the United States has just announced that the previously unidentified objects have now been definitely identified as being satellites. Repeat. There are no enemy missiles approaching. Repeat, there are no enemy missiles approaching. The objects have been identified as satellites. They are harmless and we are in no danger. Repeat. We are in no danger. The state of emergency has officially been called off. We are in no danger. Repeat. There is no enemy attack. There is no enemy attack.MRS.WEISS: (her eyes closed and crying softly) Thank God. Oh, thank God.WEISS: (in a whisper, his face bruised and blood clotted) Amen to that.HENDERSON: Hey, Marty Marty I went crazy. You understand that, dont you? I just went crazy. I didnt mean all the things I said. (he wets his lips, his voice shaking) We were all of us we were so scared so confuse. (he holds out his hands in a gesture) Well, its no wonder really, is it? I mean well, you can understand why we blew our tops a little Theres a murmur of voices, a few half-hearted nods, but theyre all still in a state of shock.HARLOWE: I dont think Martys going to hold it against you. (then turning to STOCKTON) I just hope Bill wont hold this (he points to the wreckage around him) against us. Well pay for the damage, Bill. Well take up a collection right away.As STOCKTON walks past them across the cellar and up toward the stairs, all eyes are on him and theres an absolute dead silence.WEISS: (his voice shaky and nervous) We could we could have a block party or something tomorrow night. A big celebration. I think we deserve one now.He looks around smiling at the others, a nervous smiles born of a carry-over of fear and the realization that something has taken hold of all of them now. Something deadening in its effect and disquieting beyond words.STOCKTON takes a step up on the stairs then stops and turns back toward them. His face is expressionless.HARLOWE: (with phony laughter desperately trying to relieve situation) Block partys not a bad idea. (looking around at the others) Anything to get back to normal.STOCKTON: (looks from face to face and slowly shakes his head) Normal? (a pause) I dont know. I dont know what normal is. I thought I did, but I dont any more.HARLOWE: I told you wed pay for the damagesSTOCKTON: (stares at him) The damages? (he nods) I wonder if we realize just what those damages are? (he looks from face to face again) Maybe the worst of them was finding out just what were like when were normal. The kind of people we are. Just underneath the surface. I mean all of us. A lot of naked animals who attach such great importance to staying alive that they claw their neighbors to death just for the privilege. (he leans against the stairway wall, suddenly desperately tired, very softly as he turns away from them) We were spared a bomb tonightbut I wonder if we werent destroyed even without it.He continues up the steps.防空洞第一幕的內(nèi)容提要：某個夏夜，斯道克頓家正在舉行生日慶祝會。來賓中有他的鄰居：亨德森一家，韋斯一家，還有哈洛一家。正當宴會進行時，收音機里出乎意料的傳來了美國總統(tǒng)的公告，因懷疑敵方導(dǎo)彈的飛近，宣布處于緊急狀態(tài)。宴會就此結(jié)束，鄰居們急匆匆的回家去。然而，過了不多久他們又一個接著一個的回到了斯道克頓的家，就因為他們想活下去-想分享斯道克頓家的防空洞；這是他們街上唯一的防空洞。第二幕斯道克頓家的防空洞亨德森 ：導(dǎo)彈隨時都可能落下來。我就知道，快啦，說落就落.亨德森 太太： （一把抓住他）咱們可怎么辦啊？在上述和以下的對白過程中，一個小孩拿著的袖珍收音機一直在廣播下述通告：播音員的聲音： 這是康納雷民防廣播電臺?？找u警報仍未解除。公職人員，擔負緊急備戰(zhàn)任務(wù)的政府雇員以及民防工作人員，請立即到崗。公職人員，擔負緊急戰(zhàn)備任務(wù)的政府雇員 哈洛 太太 ：杰雷，再去求一求吧。哈洛 ： 你就別白費口舌了。他任何人都不讓進去。他說他騰不出地方，生活用品也不夠， 他家的防空洞是為三個人設(shè)計的。亨德森太太：那么咱們怎么辦？維斯 ：也許咱們該挑選一個地下室收拾收拾。咱們把東西統(tǒng)統(tǒng)湊在一起，視頻啦，水啦，一切物品統(tǒng)統(tǒng)湊攏來哈洛太太： 這不公平。（指著道克斯頓的住宅）他到躲在防空洞里安安全全的，可咱們的孩子只好等著挨炸.亨德林 ： 咱們到他的地下室去，撞開那扇門。大伙說好嗎？ 眾人齊聲贊同。 亨德森向地下室入口處奔去，哈洛追上他，說道：哈洛： 你等等，你等等。那兒怎么擠得進這么多人。這樣做簡直太愚蠢。韋斯： 咱們何不抽簽？誰家抽中誰家進去。哈洛： 這又有什么不同？他不會讓咱們進去的。亨德森：咱們一起下去跟他說，他把這條街上的人都得罪了。咱們可以這樣跟他說。哈洛：這有什么用？我三番五次跟你們講過，即使咱們把門砸開，那個防空洞也容納不下咱們這些人。咱們肯定會統(tǒng)統(tǒng)擠死，而且一點名堂也沒有。亨德森太太：這兒的這些孩子，哪怕只有一個因此而得救了-依我說，這就是一個理由。又傳來廣播員的聲音。韋斯 ：杰雷，咱們這些人里數(shù)你跟他最熟悉，你是他的最好的朋友。你何不再下去一趟呢？同他說說吧。求求他。請他條一戶人家-通過抽簽什么的亨德森 ： 一戶人家，就是你家嘍，韋斯，對嗎？韋斯 ：（幕地向他轉(zhuǎn)過身去）那又怎么樣？我有三個月大的嬰兒.亨德森太太：這有什么了不起的？ 難道你家小孩的性命比我們家小孩的性命更貴重么？韋斯 ：（沖著她嚷）我可從來沒有說過這樣的話。要是你想爭論誰應(yīng)該比誰更值得活下去的話-亨德森 ：你干嘛不把嘴閉上，韋斯？（勃然大怒）外國佬來了，也就是這副樣子。好斗貪婪的半拉子美國人.韋斯 ：（臉色發(fā)白）你這個十足的白癡，好你個.亨德森太太：他沒有說錯，韋斯！我敢斷定你就是那種蹩腳透頂?shù)呢浬? 韋斯突然穿過人群朝亨德森撲過去，他們兩個隨即展開了一場短暫的格斗。哈洛氣喘吁吁地奔了過來，站到他們中間，把雙方隔開。哈洛 ：你們在打啊，繼續(xù)打呀。咱們不用等著導(dǎo)彈飛過來。咱們自相殘殺嘛。維斯太太：馬蒂，再到比爾的防空洞走一趟吧.求他-韋斯 ：我已經(jīng)求過他了，毫無用處。警報又響了，人們似乎靠的更近了，大家抬著頭凝視夜空?？吹靡娺h方的探照燈光。亨德森 ：（突然推開哈洛，向地下室的臺階走去）我這就下去叫他把那扇門打開，我可不管你們是怎么想的?，F(xiàn)在能做的只有這件事了。男子甲 ：他說得對?？煅?，咱們?nèi)ジ伞７揽斩蠢锔窭俳z緊緊抱著保羅，斯道克頓靠近門站著，靜聽那伙人走近時從外面?zhèn)鱽淼男[聲。砰地一聲，防空洞的門被敲得震天響。防空洞外亨德森 ：比爾，比爾，斯道克頓！一大群想要活命的鄰居都在外面等著啦?，F(xiàn)在可以打開門了，讓咱們一道合計合計你這個洞里能進去多少人。否則，你盡管我們我行我素下去吧-可咱們就哎喲打進來了。哈洛上場，擠過人群，走到防空洞門邊。哈洛 ：比爾，我是杰雷。外面的人可不是在開玩笑啊！斯道克頓的聲音：我在里面也不是在開玩笑。我已經(jīng)對你說過，杰雷。你們這是在浪費時間。你們在浪費寶貴的時間，你們本可以用這些事件干別的事情 比如想想如何逃生的辦法。男子甲： 咱們干嗎不找根結(jié)實的出木頭來把門砸開？亨德森 ：咱們不妨去貝特大街。菲爾.克蘭家地下室里有幾根大木頭。我看見過，咱們?nèi)タ敢桓?。我們只要叫克蘭閉上嘴，別問我們要它做什么就行了。韋斯 ：咱們還是克制一點，先別爭，好好想想亨德森 ：（轉(zhuǎn)過身來臉朝維斯）誰也不在乎你想什么。你也罷，和你臭味相投的人也罷，別人才不管哪。我本以為這些話在上面已經(jīng)講得清楚了。我認為，當務(wù)之急首先是得把你從這年出去。話音剛落，他便冷不防的拔出拳頭朝韋斯臉上揮去。維斯觸不及防，被打倒在墻角。他的妻子尖叫著奔到他身邊，手里人抱著嬰孩。有幾個人想使勁拉住那位鄰居，這時一陣混亂。哈洛迅速走到維斯跟前，扶著他站起身來。警報再次拉響